Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King
I know that I wasn’t the only one that did a double take today when I opened up WoW and saw the “Breaking News” maintenance announcement that included a tidbit about the realm Dreadmaul undergoing hardware upgrades for Wrath of the Lich King.
I find that [...]

Filed under: Druid, Wrath of the Lich King, Rumors
A healer in WoW basically has one job: keep folks from being dead. Ideally, you would keep folks from ever becoming dead in the first place by healing them, but sometimes humans do die and you have to resurrect them. WoW has four classes that can heal, [...]

Though we had a great duration on Sunday, we neglected an entire continent of Alliance flames which desperately need desecrating! So, those of us from It came from the Blog will be rectifying that on Wednesday and you are welcome to join us. Here are the details:

When: Wednesday, July 2nd at 6PM Pacific (7PM server [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends, Talents, Death Knight
We were lucky suitable to get an Azerothian ton (they’re like twice the weight of normal tons, don’t you know) of news about Wrath of the Lich King at Blizzard’s Worldwide Invitational that weekend, and hidden in the Death Knight hands on, there’s a ton [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items, WoW Rookie, BlizzCon, Wrath of the Lich King, Rumors, Worldwide Invitational
WoW Rookie is brought to our readers to help our newest players get acclimated to the game. construct certain you send a note to WoW Insider whether you have suggestions for what new players need to know.
This [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Gamers on the Street, Wrath of the Lich King, Worldwide Invitational

Gamers on the Street logs onto U.S. servers to get the word from the front on what’s going on in and around the World of Warcraft.
Are you spending Monday digging through the pile of Wrath of the Lich King news [...]

Filed under: Tips, Factions, Guides
Some of the best rewards in WoW can only be achieved whether you have the appropriate level of reputation with a specific faction. Whether you’re a make new WoW player or a freshly-minted level 70 dipping your first toe into the endgame, you need to educate yourself about reputation (or “rep” [...]

Filed under: Engineering, Enchanting, Analysis / Opinion, Factions, Wrath of the Lich King, Worldwide Invitational
To coincide with the earlier good news about factions (which is, apparently, poor news to some) we have a little more good news regarding reputation. As I am certain some folks (Engineers) are painfully aware, representation was… uh, lacking for convinced [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Events, WoW Social Conventions, Blizzard, Burning Crusade, NPCs, BlizzCon, Wrath of the Lich King, Worldwide Invitational
So it’s Monday now, the Worldwide Invitational in Paris is officially by, Diablo 3 has been announced and we’ve got tons of new info about Wrath of the Lich King — but where’s the cinematic? [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Virtual selves, Blizzard, News items
As we’ve been posting on WoW Insider, Blizzard is entangled in a lawsuit with the makers of WoW Glider, a bot program that is against WoW’s terms of service. And there’s been a wrinkle in the case — an advocacy group called Public Knowledge has [...]

 
This is a big rumor, not only considering it concerns Wrath of the Lich King, but additionally considering we’ll know the truth of that rumor in a couple of days. The rumor we’re concerned about has everything to do with Wrath’s closed beta, which is supposedly going to start sometime in July.
The story [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, PvP, Classes, (Arena PvP) Blood Sport, Arena, Worldwide Invitational
Hailing from , Council of Mages was victorious in that year’s World Wide Invitational 3v3 tournament. Second place went to Improved Clicks of Spain. The winners took home a check worth $36,000 for their victory and made an excellent showing all through [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, Wrath of the Lich King, Rumors
July 3rd, 2008. that will either be a blessed day for a lot of us WoW addicted folk, or one of some major disappointment. According to the German site allvatar, they spoke with Blizzard’s German assistant community manager Gnorog. He reportedly said that the [...]

Filed under: Items, Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Lore, Factions, Fan art

Reader Richie has done something genius — he is a big fan of the Scarlet Crusade, having collected all of their armor and their tabard ingame. And when one of his guildies hit a birthday, he decided to take the design from the tabard, [...]

Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Ask WoW Insider, Leveling

Welcome to today’s edition of Ask WoW Insider, in which we publish your questions for dissection by the peanut gallery — now with additional snark and commentary by one of our writers. that week Houldlum writes in:
I’m wondering whether it’s possible to hit level 70 before ever [...]

Filed under: Odds and ends, Blizzard, Screenshots, Wrath of the Lich King, Rumors, Worldwide Invitational

Reader Oleg was kind sufficient to send along that Diablo III screenshot, which he found by on Blizzard’s main site about the new game they announced that weekend. As you can see up in the corner, the game’s internal cipher name [...]

Filed under: Druid, Paladin, Priest, Shaman, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, How-tos, Raiding, (Raid Healing) Raid Rx

Raid Rx is designed to encapsulate and cure the shock and horror that is 25-man raid healing. Ok, so it’s mostly horror… Anyways, whether you’re a big fan of X-TREME Whack-A-Mole (or are being forced into it against your will) [...]

Today was the last day of the Worldwide Invitational in Paris, France. The day began with a panel led by Blizzard artists Samwise Didier and Dave…
Original post by Victor B.

Filed under: Machinima, Humor, WoW Moviewatch
Nyhm of Hard Like Heroic, Ni Hao and Pretty Fly for a Draenei is back with a rapping parody about that guy we all know. The guy who has nothing better to do than grief other players out of boredom. The one who spams trade channels with nonsense. As with [...]

Filed under: (Guild Leadership) Officers’ Quarters

Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers’ Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership.
One of the primary struggles I face in a guild with no attendance policy is getting warm bodies to fill 25 raid slots for every raid. It seems like it doesn’t matter how many [...]